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Gray (JOHN) 



As an iron- master, John Gray of Hagley, near Stourbridge, owned 

 quarries in the Wenlock Limestone at Dudley, whence the stone was 

 extracted for use as a flux. His workmen saved the fossils for him and 

 he purchased others from elsewhere, and thus thrice amassed a splendid 

 collection. His first was one of those to which Murchison acknowledges 

 his indebtedness in the " Silurian System." In 1861, it contained 2730 

 specimens, and of these the Museum purchased 2366. The rest, it is said 

 in the documents referring to the transaction, were destined for the 

 Museum of Practical Geology; but just a year later he sold to the 

 Museum a series of trilobites from the Wenlock Shale of Malvern. The 

 first series comprised : 103 trilobites, including many figured by Salter 

 (Mem. Geol. Surv. and Palseontogr. Soc.), the type of Lichas grayi and 

 other Lichas figured by Fletcher; 241 echinoderms, including types of 

 Lepidaster grayi, Pseudocrinus magnificus, and presumably Pisocrinus 

 pilula, also specimens of Pseudocrinus bifasciatus and Apiocy&tis pentre- 

 moides figured by Forbes; 199 corals, including the type of Heliolites 

 grayi; 1823 shells of molluscs and brachiopods, including specimens of 

 Leptaena and Siphonotreta figured by Davidson; and the types of 

 Chiton grayanus and 0. wrightianus, tfce latter subsequently referred to 

 Turrilepas. A selection from Gray's second collection was bought in two 

 instalments in 1869, and amounted to 775 Wenlock fossils from Dudley, 

 all classes of invertebrates being represented. On Gray's death his whole 

 collection was taken over by the dealer, F. H. Butler, and from him 

 in 1889 the Trustees purchased 337 selected specimens of invertebrates 

 from the Wenlock beds of Dudley and of plants from the Coal Measures. 

 A few other interesting specimens that came to light later on were also 

 purchased. The remainder were dispersed by Mr. Butler in the course of 

 business, and some of these also have ultimately found their way to the 

 Museum, in the Madeley and other collections. Spt cimens from the Gray 

 collection are readily recognised from being fixed with chalk and gum on 

 a thin wooden tablet covered with a smooth purplish-brown paper, and 

 provided with a label written on white paper. 



Green (Rev. CHARLES) 



Green, of Bacton, Norfolk, collected fossils, chiefly Yertebrata, from 

 the Forest Bed and the Fens. Many of his specimens were described in 

 Owen's "British Fossil Mammals and Birds." His collection was pur- 

 chased by the Museum in 1843. 



Green (JACOB) 



Presented plaster casts of North American Trilobites, 1834. 



Green (UPFIELD) 



Presented Devonian Invertebrata from the Eifel, 1899. 

 Greenhill (J. E.) 



Collected and presented non-marine Mollusca from river-deposits at 

 lapton, Essex, 1888, and Mammalian remains from a Turbary at 

 Walthamstow, 1890. 



Greenough (GEORGE BELLAS) 



Presented Tertiary shells from Barbados, 1822. 

 Greenwood (GEORGE) 



Presented jaws of cave-bear from cavern at Isturitz, Bayonne, 1898. 



